BRIAN Clough and Peter Taylor were one of the best-known – and most successful – managerial partnerships in the history of English football.

The pair first met at Middlesbrough in 1955 when Clough was an up-and-coming striker and Taylor was reserve goalkeeper.

Taylor became manager of Burton Albion in 1962 – a role later occupied by Clough's son, Nigel – and guided the side to victory in the Southern League Cup in 1964.

He then became Clough's assistant manager at Hartlepool, where they guided the struggling team to eighth place in the fourth division.

Clough and Taylor joined Derby County in May 1967 and won promotion to the first division in 1969. The club won the league championship in 1972.

Both men resigned from Derby County in October 1973, and took over at Brighton a month later.

Clough left for Leeds in July 1974. His reign only lasted 44 days.

On January 6, 1975, Clough became manager of Forest and 18 months later Peter Taylor resigned as Brighton manager to team up with his old partner once again.

The pair masterminded the most successful period in Forest's history. They won promotion to division one, won the league in their first season back in the top flight, two league cups and most famously, Forest's European Cup victories in 1979 and 1980.

Taylor retired in May 1982, only to take over as Derby manager six months later. The club were bottom of the table, but Taylor steered them to mid-table respectability.

He and Clough famously fell out over the transfer of John Robertson from Forest to Derby in May 1983.

Clough called Taylor a "snake in the grass" in a tabloid article and added: "We pass each other on the A52 going to work on most days of the week. But if his car broke down and I saw him thumbing a lift, I wouldn't pick him up, I'd run him over."

They never spoke again.

Taylor resigned as Derby manager in April 1984 and died on holiday in October 1990.